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Welcome to the #CovidSpring series in which we look through the Covid winter, which we are now enduring, to the coming spring beyond the crisis and harness some of the world's finest minds to together think about what kind of world we want to create. What kind of world we want and need - in search of humane economics.
info_outlineFollowing three decades as an entrepreneur and eight or so years specialising in equity crowdfunding, today’s guest Oscar Jofre explains why he firmly believes 2019 will be the year of the Security Token.
Along the way, he discusses his own lightbulb moment about the democratisation of capital during a speech given by former vice chairman of NASDAQ David Weild.
He talks about the paradigm shift crowdfunding brought about in opening-up investment to those previously excluded - and then putting this on the internet.
And about the work his own platform, KoreConx, is doing in bringing trust and compliance between all parties, as businesses - both new and established – turn to tokenisation to raise funds.
As Oscar rightly says, crowdfunding was the start of all this. It allowed everyday people around the world the opportunity to participate in an early stage start-up; suddenly you didn’t have to be a high-net-worth individual paying huge fees to investment houses. He himself specialised in equity and debt crowdfunding as offering the most opportunity for disruption.
Now, Oscar believes, tokenisation is going to take this to a new level. Whereas previously start-ups only thought friends and family would get involved, now it’s just as likely to be someone the other side of the world who likes your project.
Blockchain as technology adds the trust element, so that when somebody makes an investment in a company, they know that what they’ve been provided in the transaction is rightfully theirs. And, moreover can offer the chance for trading that security on the secondary markets.
In the world today there is over $500 trillion sitting in private companies, not able to move. How groundbreaking would it be if you were able to make that money move, to be used in other securities, to have that money actually moving to keep business flowing?
KoreConx itself is a platform where companies can manage all of their capital market activity and stakeholder communications in one place, on the internet, without charge. And where for a fee, companies can also design and launch their own security token, tapping into the expert legal and marketing advice the platform offers, and using introductions via the trusted partner broker network to trade in different jurisdictions.
And the exciting thing this offers is that established companies looking to raise funds no longer have to agonise about whether it’s the right time to sell, or to go public; now they can release funds by tokenising shares, which can themselves be traded without affecting the core business itself.
His closing thought is that we are now, for the first time, seeing the most disruptive opportunity in the democratisation of capital. For the first time there’s the chance to raise capital through tokenisation, which itself offers investors the trust that when they own something, it is theirs; and they can go on to trade without any restriction, within local rules and regulations. And it further offers the chance for small-time investors to get involved through the fractionalisation of assets and businesses.
This is a very disruptive and exciting time, of a type we’ve never seen before in financial Capital markets. 2019 will truly be a Happy New Year!